Henry Dircks
(Liverpool: 26th August 1806 - Brighton: 17th September 1873)
Henry Dircks was an English engineer and author who invented what later became known as Pepper's Ghost due to John Henry Pepper's improvements and successful staging of the illusion. He was conducting railway, canal, and mining works, and later consulted on engineering questions. He investigated technologies and invented new devices, taking out several patents. He eventually became a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
